1. Los Famosos Artistas Hispanos
El Arte Hispano
Los Famosos Artistas Hispanos

2. ¿Quiénes son algunos artistas hispanos?
El Greco
Diego Velázquez
Francisco Goya
Bartolomé Esteban Murillo
Pablo Picasso
Salvador Dalí
Diego Rivera
Frida Khalo
Fernando Botero
Marisol Escobar
Juan Miró
Antonio Gaudí
José Clemente Orozco
Juan Gris
Jesús-Rafael Soto

3. The Prado Museum is renowned as being the largest art gallery in the world. It exhibits sculptures, drawings, coins and other works of arts, but it is undoubtedly its large collection of paintings which has given it fame worldwide. It houses more than 8,600 paintings and takes a whole day just to properly view them all.
Some of the Spanish paintings represented are the works by the grand masters El Greco, Velázquez, Murillo, Francisco Goya and a long list of other great artists.
The Prado Museum is renowned as being the largest art gallery in the world. It exhibits sculptures, drawings, coins and other works of arts, but it is undoubtedly its large collection of paintings which has given it fame worldwide. It houses more than 8,600 paintings and takes a whole day just to properly view them all.
Some of the Spanish paintings represented are the works by the grand masters El Greco, Velázquez, Murillo, Francisco Goya and a long list of other great artists.

4. Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía
The Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Sofía is the official name of Spain’s national museum of 20th century art. Highlights of the museum include excellent collections of Spain’s two greatest 20th century masters, Pablo Picasso and Salvador Dalí. The most famous work in the museum is Picasso’s Guernica. The Reina Sofía also has fine collections of the works of Juan Gris and Joan Miró.

5. El Greco 1541 – 1614 Real name: Domenikos Theotokopoulos
Born on the Greek island of Crete
Spent most of his life in Spain where he was called El Greco
One of his greatest masterpieces, The Burial of Count Orgaz, is displayed at the Church of Santo Tomé in Toledo, Spain.
Artwork has a mystical and religious theme
The Burial of Count Orgaz

6. The Maids of Honour (Las Meninas)
Diego Velázquez
1599 – 1660
Born in the city of Seville, Spain
He was hired as a court painter in the court of Philip IV (Felipe IV).
Velazquez was sometimes called "the painter of the truth" .
Possibly the greatest painter that ever lived, experts claim that he produced the largest quantity of masterful works of art. His works hang in museums all around the world, including the Prado.
The Maids of Honour (Las Meninas)

7. The Shootings of May 3rd. (Los Fusilamientos del 3 de Mayo)
Francisco José de Goya
1746 – 1828
Born in Fuendetodos (Zaragoza), Spain
Artwork reflected contemporary historical upheavals and influenced important 19th- and 20th-century painters.
The bold technique of his paintings and his belief that the artist's vision is more important than tradition, Goya is often called "the first of the moderns." (realism)
He evolved a bold, free new style close to caricature.
The Shootings of May 3rd. (Los Fusilamientos del 3 de Mayo)
Game of the Little Giants (Las Gigantillas)

8. Bartolomé Esteban Murillo
1599 – 1682
Born in Seville, Spain in where he lived until his death.
Founded a prestigious painting academy
His paintings, for the most part, are of a religious nature and theme.
Also painted scenes of children and many precise portraits
He is still considered a great universal master.
The Immaculate Conception of Soult (La Immaculada de Soult)

9. THE TRAGEDY (1903) (La Tragedia)
(Málaga Mougins 1973)
Blue Period: "Life".
1907-"Las demoiselles d'Avignon" and Cubism began.
In May 1937, he began the most famous work of contemporary art, the "Guernica,” depicting the Spanish Civil War.
In 1963, the Picasso Museum in Barcelona was inaugurated. This was an important institution to which Picasso himself donated all the works he owned in 1970.
He died shortly after, in 1973, in Notre-Dame-de-Vie de Mougins and was buried in his castle in Vauvenargues.
Don Quixote
THE TRAGEDY (1903) (La Tragedia)

10. Three Musicians, or Musicians in Masks (1921)
In the mid 50's, Picasso began to do studies of classics and painted a series of art history´s great paintings. He chose "Las Meninas" by Velázquez.
THE MAIDS OF HONOUR (1957) (Las Meninas)
The key concept of Cubism is that the essence of objects can only be captured by showing it from multiple points of view simultaneously.
Three Musicians, or Musicians in Masks (1921)

11. What do you see in this painting?
This is more a cartoon on canvas than a picture. A cartoon without text because everything "is written" in this image. Picasso (later affiliated to the French Communist Party) was a defendant of the Spanish Republic, which made him a loyal artist, well-know all over the world. In fact, in January 1937, the picture was commissioned by the Republican government to decorate the Spanish stand at the 1937 Universal Exhibition in Paris, with a clear propaganda context. That's why the painting is so big: it was to be admired by a lot of people at the same time in a scene that wasn't like a showing.   Two months later the terrible bombing of Guernica took place (26th April 1937) and it was turned into the ideal subject for the picture. But curiously and thanks to the painter's great ability there are no signs of war in it, no bombs, nor soldiers or guns. The main subjects are from bullfighting: horse and bull in a moment of bullfighting and a fugitive mother with her dead son in her arms. As usual of Picasso, his private life is reflected in his artistic themes. In this case and due to its political undertone, it caused great controversy, though years later this painting became a pacifist manifesto.   Picasso took a month in finishing the picture, which was made in black and grey tones to emphasize dramatism and highlight the message. Short of time, he used sketches from his previous works to get the painting finished quickly. His partner at that time, photographer Dora Maar, took photographs of the process of development of the painting.   Today, this painting is fundamental to Modern Art and anyone who looks at it closely cannot be left feeling indifferent.
GUERNICA (1937)

12. Salvador Dalí Figueras, 1904 – Figueras, 1989
A flamboyant painter and sometime writer, sculptor and experimental film-maker, Salvador Dali was probably the greatest Surrealist artist, using bizarre dream imagery to create unforgettable and unmistakable landscapes of his inner world. His most famous work is The Persistence Of Memory.
A most famous dreamer

13. The Arsenal - Frida Kahlo Distributes Arms (1928)
Diego Rivera
He was a Mexican Social Realist Muralist.
Social Realism is a form of naturalistic realism focusing specifically on social problems and the hardships of everyday life.
As a member of the Mexican Communist Party, Rivera remained loyal to the revolutionary cause all his life, as is illustrated in many of his paintings.
Frida Kahlo, Diego's third wife, was Diego's great admirer, and she shared Diego's revolutionary feelings.
The Arsenal - Frida Kahlo Distributes Arms (1928)

14. Frida's life began and ended in Mexico City, in her home known as the Blue House..
Frida Kahlo was involved in a serious bus accident . For a month, Frida was forced to stay flat on her back, encased in a plaster cast and enclosed in a boxlike structure.
Frida's enormous strength and will to live allowed her to survive and make a remarkable recovery. She began painting shortly after the accident because she was bored in bed. This became her lifelong profession.
Frida let out all of her emotions on a canvas. She painted her anger and hurt over her stormy marriage, the painful miscarriages, and the physical suffering she underwent because of the accident.
Frida began wearing the traditional Mexican clothing, which consisted of long, colorful dresses and exotic jewelry. This, along with Frida's thick, connecting eyebrows, became her trademark.
Frida Kahlo
Self-Portrait on The Border Between Mexico and the United States (1932)

15. Fernando Botero 1932-present “Neo-figurative” Colombian artist
Paintings and sculpture
Uses his work to capture himself and his subjects through color and form
Exaggerates proportions
Familia

16. Marisol Escobar The Kennedys 1930-present
Venezuelan who lives in Paris
Makes sculptures and wooden figures as well as paintings
Primarily self-taught
Stopped painting in 1951 to focus on sculpture
Influenced by Leonardo da Vinci
Greatly influenced by
Pop Art: an art movement in the 1960’s where artist’s such as Lichtenstein, Warhol, and Johns appropriated images from popular culture. Marisol’s art work utilizes figures from everyday life sometimes dressed in 60’s fashion. She was also considered a folk artist because of her use of carved found objects and primitive form.
The Kennedys

17. Joan Miró 1893-1983 Barcelona, Spain
Surrealist painter, ceramist and sculptor
Preferred more contemporary means of expression
Vuelo de Pájaros

18. José Clemente Orozco 1883-1949 Mexican Social Realist, Muralist
Co-lead the Mexican Mural Renaissance with Diego Rivera
Zapatistas

19. Antonio Gaudí 1852-1926 Studied architecture in Barcelona
Devout Catholic
Died before La Sagrada Familia could be finished
Left no blueprints
Curving, surreal designs
Art nouveau
La Sagrada Familia

20. Juan Gris 1887-1927 Cubism Influenced by Picasso
Born Jose Victoriano González in 1887, in Madrid
Studied first to be an engineer
Man in the Café

21. Jesús-Rafael Soto 1923-2005 Painter and Installation Artist
Influenced by Cubism in his early years
Specializes in Op Art and Kinetic Art
Sphere Concord